Ah yes,a teenage (drinking)parties.lol Those prescious, innocent piggeries.We would listen to Abba, Bay City Rollers,Sweet,Kiss,Smokie and drink cherry brandy with vermouth(extra dry or white ).What a piglets we were.We 've been throwing our guts up.It was hilarious.lol I still remember the taste of my vomit after I had too much of vermouth and got sick on that on new year's eve 1976.The girls were even worse than us boys.I changed my drinking habits and music interests later, when I turned 15.

Sorry ,I know nothing about Stone's Green Ginger Wine.

Midlands- you must be of Angle origin.You don't use a broad A-that much I know.Do you have a fond memories of your old country and early childhood?As for accents,George Bernard Shaw’s professor Henry Higgins couldn't help me.I could easily be mistaken for a freakin' Russian.

Well, back in my drinking days (in which I would still be living if I had any friends who would join me in a drink) I enjoyed a good old shot of tequila...or 2 or 3 or 4...heheh. It was my preferred drink as my only purpose to drinking is to get drunk, and I would find if I drank a normal drink such as wine *gag* or beer *further gags* I would be in the toilet all night (not vomiting by the way, just normal toilet usage) and it also takes so disgusting to me I would never be able to drink enough to actually get drunk.

Tequila though was easy. One quick swallow, some salt and lemon if you so choose, and a nice warm quick feeling of tipsiness. And no toilet-going because it's only a small amount of liquid. Also if it's cold, it warms you up. Ah, that familiar feeling of hot burning going down your throat and into your chest!

These days however, it's hot chocolates, coke and juice for this old biddy.

Stone's is easy to describe. It's hot and gingery, syrupy, and very sweet. Yuk!

I used to drink a lot of tequila, but it's too expensive these days. I hated Australian beer until I moved to Melbourne, then I got a taste for VB (Victoria Bitter) because that's what the local cartoonists drank. I still prefer ale to lager, though

Midlands people have Danish ancestors, OKD, and that's where some of the accent comes from. The central and eastern parts of what is now England were part of the Kingdom of Denmark during the Ninth Century.